{"id":1962,"date":"2021-01-27T08:59:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T16:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/601182da751891e1b1b614e8"},"modified":"2021-01-27T08:59:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T16:59:46","slug":"the-weather-station-battles-climate-change-anxiety-one-song-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/authoritydaily.com\/the-weather-station-battles-climate-change-anxiety-one-song-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weather Station Battles Climate-Change Anxiety, One Song at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the beginning of performing [music], I needed to keep things very small, because that was the only thing that felt fully honest,\u201d she explains. \u201cNow I understand that there is a role of a performer that isn\u2019t just completely personal and ordinary. You can choose to play a larger-than-life emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"responsive-asset asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-asset--invisible\"><picture class=\"asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station at the piano\" class=\"responsive-image__image lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/6011851da2442f05129b142e\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/WeatherStationPhotoByColin%252520Medley.jpg\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/6011851da2442f05129b142e\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/WeatherStationPhotoByColin%252520Medley.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/6011851da2442f05129b142e\/master\/w_1280%2Cc_limit\/WeatherStationPhotoByColin%252520Medley.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/6011851da2442f05129b142e\/master\/w_1024%2Cc_limit\/WeatherStationPhotoByColin%252520Medley.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/6011851da2442f05129b142e\/master\/w_768%2Cc_limit\/WeatherStationPhotoByColin%252520Medley.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/6011851da2442f05129b142e\/master\/w_640%2Cc_limit\/WeatherStationPhotoByColin%252520Medley.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"\"><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"sc-iCoHVE sc-bkbjAj inZljn gfyiOQ caption asset-embed__caption\"><span class=\"sc-iCoHVE sc-fujyUd sc-dIvqjp inZljn foIzCW dSFfMv caption__credit\">Photo by Colin Medley<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lindeman appears in <em>Ignorance<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/tracks\/the-weather-station-robber\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/the-weather-station-announces-new-album-ignorance-shares-video-for-new-song-tried-to-tell-you-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three<\/a> music <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-the-weather-station-video-for-new-song-atlantic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">videos<\/a>, which also mark her debut as a director. As with the emotional cartography of her songwriting, the videos feature subtle movements in the periphery of the frame, visual choices influenced by arthouse icons Agn\u00e8s Varda and Andrei Tarkovksy. Again, she\u2019s found herself committed to a sense of candor. \u201cThe camera wants to convince you that it knows everything, but it doesn\u2019t,\u201d she says. \u201cI just wanted to open up a little portal for people to understand that there\u2019s more to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the videos and on the album\u2019s cover, Lindeman wears a suit jacket and pants covered in mirrored fragments\u2014garments of her own design. Surrounded by trees and fallen leaves, she appears and vanishes with every move, attracting a gaze and immediately bouncing it back. As a performer, she says, \u201cPeople project themselves onto you and want you to reflect back what they feel in their hearts, and that is a good and bad thing.\u201d She adds that in the months since she shot the videos, her mirror suit is already starting to fall apart.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"iframe-embed iframe-embed--center\">\n<div class=\"iframe-embed__container\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-same-origin\" class=\"iframe-embed__content\" title=\"Embedded Frame\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KNaKbMnOgX4\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Though climate change somehow remains a political issue to this day, Lindeman doesn\u2019t consider <em>Ignorance<\/em> a protest record. \u201cI wish that I had the guts to do that,\u201d she says, instead emphasizing that the record serves vulnerability and acts as a mutual acknowledgment of tenderness. \u201cThe sense of a little soul recognition is like spiritual food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s growth, not despair, that drives Lindeman\u2019s efforts to alert her listeners to a crisis, and she even sees room for some degree of redemption for those who have struggled to face the truth about climate change. \u201cI believe that people are fragile and delicate and complicated, and can be easily misled,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s not like a Pollyanna view of human nature, but I do believe that most people want to be good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back at the Leslie Street Spit, water laps at the edge of the refuse, a quiet and ceaseless insistence of nature\u2019s long memory. \u201cWe are connected to the nonhuman world in profound ways, whether or not we acknowledge that,\u201d Lindeman says. She knows the rewards of undertaking a survival effort that seems impossible. In a few months, springtime will start to restore the area to a booming refuge for insects, waterfowl, and people alike, the sprigs of vegetation once again pushing through the concrete debris around her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the beginning of performing [music], I needed to keep things very small, because that was the only thing that felt fully honest,\u201d she explains. \u201cNow I understand that there is a role of a performer that isn\u2019t just completely personal and ordinary. 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